CHEESE RENNET

Rennet Coagulation

2011-10-31T19:02:00.000-07:00

Rennet Coagulation :
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* This extract contains a number of enzymes which are designed to help these animals digest their mother's milk, and when added to milk, rennet will cause the milk to coagulate, forming the curds and whey which are so essential in the cheesemaking process.
* Junket is a dessert which is made with sweetened, flavored milk, mixed with rennet to coagulate it. The coagulation causes the junket to set into a soft pudding, which is typically served chilled, often topped with fruit or spices.
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Rennet Enzymes

2011-10-26T19:01:00.000-07:00

Rennet Enzymes :
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* Some cheesemakers continue to make and use rennet in this way; the vast majority use commercially processed rennet, which is made by creating a slurry and then subjecting it to a compound which will cause the enzymes to precipitate out. The main enzyme in rennet is rennin, although there are a few other enzymes as well, and the precise content depends on the animal the rennet comes from; sheep rennet, for example, is different from cow rennet.
* Before the rennet can be added to a recipe, it must be dissolved in cool water; dissolution is critical for the rennet to work. One important thing to know when working with rennet tablets is that high heat will deactivate the enzymes, which is why cool water is required for dissolution, and why temperature control of the milk used for cheese, junket, and other foods which call for rennet is very important.
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Whey Rennet

2011-10-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

Whey Rennet :
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* Once curds have formed, cheese makers can cut the curds, drain them, and pack them into molds to make cheese. Several plants produce natural rennet compounds, as do some microbes, and these non-animal sources of rennet can be found for sale in stores which cater to vegetarians, and in shops which produce kosher dairy products.
* Cheese is used in a dazzling array of culinary applications, with various types of cheeses being called for depending upon the desired effect. To make cheese, rennet, an enzyme complex produced in the stomach of all mammals, is introduced to milk.
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Liquid Rennet

2011-10-09T19:00:00.000-07:00

Liquid Rennet
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* Modern rennet is created through an extraction process which yields neat, dry tablets or a liquid which is very easy to work with. Traditional rennet was made by washing the stomach of a young ruminant after it has been slaughtered, and then salting it.
* Over time, butchers started offering rennet as a useful byproduct of their business, and eventually companies seized upon the idea of making rennet in tablet and liquid form for convenience. A typical rennet tablet is white, and around the size of a thumbnail.
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RENNET

2010-02-21T20:59:00.000-08:00

RENNET

Cheese Rennet is a preparation of the lining membrane of the true stomach of the calf, or a goat or sheep &c. which yields an enzyme capable of causing the coagulation of casein, and is used in the manufacture of some cheese.

Traditional rennet was made by washing the stomach of a young ruminant after it has been slaughtered, and then salting it. The salted stomach is kept in dried form, with cooks snipping off small pieces and soaking them in water when they have a need for rennet. Some cheesemakers continue to make and use rennet in this way; the vast majority use commercially processed rennet, which is made by creating a slurry and then subjecting it to a compound which will cause the enzymes to precipitate out.

The main enzyme in rennet is rennin, although there are a few other enzymes as well, and the precise content depends on the animal the rennet comes from; sheep rennet, for example, is different from cow rennet. When added to milk, the enzyme causes the milk to coagulate, essentially starting the digestion process. Once curds have formed, cheesemakers can cut the curds, drain them, and pack them into molds to make cheese.
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CHEESE RENNET

2010-02-21T20:53:00.000-08:00

CHEESE RENNET

There are two definitions found on Cheese Rennet :
cheese rennet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

Rennet \Ren"net\, n. [AS. rinnan, rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate.
1. The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant.

2. an infusion or preparation of the calf stomach lining, used for coagulating milk. The active principle in this coagulating action is the enzyme rennin. [Written also runnet.]

Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), the enzyme rennin, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The enzyme presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form.

Rennet stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.

Cheese
1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.
3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow
4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. --De Quincey. --Thackeray.
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Have some calf stomach with your cheese rennet

2010-02-21T20:49:00.000-08:00

Have some calf stomach with your Cheese Rennet

Vegetarian cheese is cheese that is not curdled with rennet, an enzyme that occurs naturally in animal stomachs. Most vegetarian cheeses are curdled with either plants, fungi, or bacteria.

Vegetarians who do not consume cheese with rennet generally choose not to because it involves slaughtering animals to extract the enzymes.

Vegetarian cheese is hard to distinguish from cheese made with rennet. This lack of distinguisability often forces vegetarians who are ethically-opposed to harming animals to consume cheeses that contain rennet.

Even though more cheeses are being made with vegetable rennet, it is usually impossible to spot the difference, unless the package is clearly labeled "vegetarian cheese." Recently, some grocery stores have started doing this to aid vegetarian shoppers, who would not otherwise be able to distinguish the difference between the vegetable and animal rennet cheeses.

In addition to eating cheeses made with vegetable rennet, there are more alternatives to eating regular cheese.

Vegans, for instance, do not consume cheese at all because it is an animal byproduct and subsequently requires animals to be caged and suffer. Many vegans, however, do consume cheese substitutes.

Chreese is one of these substitutes. Chreese is an all natural, non-soy, cheese replacement that requires substantially less natural resources and energy to create than cheese with rennet.

And chreese is just one substitute. There are a number of other all natural alternatives you can find at local organic and health food stores.

If you are a vegetarian and you don't support animal suffering on your behalf in any capacity, you may also want to consider adjusting your dietary habits if you consume cheese made with animal rennet.

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CHEESE RENNET (HERB)

2009-06-12T22:57:00.001-07:00

CHEESE RENNET (HERB)

Cheese rennet is an herb in the coffee family, also called lady's bedstraw and yellow bedstraw.

It contains a milk curdling enzyme, and the name cheese rennet comes from its ability to curdle milk for cheese making. The leaves and stems also yield a yellow dye which was used to color cheese and butter.

The name lady's bedstraw relates to its use as a mattress stuffing.

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What Makes Cheese Rennet Vegan?

2009-06-12T22:53:00.000-07:00

What Makes Cheese Rennet Vegan?

There are two alternatives to animal rennet that can make cheese rennet vegan. There is vegetable rennet, which is made from enzymes found in safflower, melon, fig leaves or thistles, and there is microbial rennet, which is made from mold cultures or bacteria or are created artificially in a lab. These enzymes work to separate the milk in a similar fashion to how yogurt is made. More specifically, they digest the sugars in the milk and produce lactic acid, which makes the milk curdle and solidify, just like animal rennet does.

All types of vegan rennet are usually listed on product labels as either enzymes or vegetable enzymes, without any further detail. The words vegetable enzymes are a guarantee that the rennet is vegan, but enzymes is generic enough term that it can refer to both animal and vegan sources. It requires the diligent vegetarian or vegan to make a call to the manufacturer’s customer service line to double check.

Some companies will use the term vegetable rennet, although it is not that common. It’s interesting to note that vegan rennet is not rennet at all, since the word rennet refers to an animal’s stomach lining. Manufacturers have just adopted the term to denote the similar purpose.
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What Rennet Is

2009-06-12T22:52:00.000-07:00

What Rennet Is

Rennet is an enzyme used to coagulate cheese, helping it make the transformation from liquid milk form to a solid. Traditionally rennet is extracted from the stomach lining of butchered veal calves. The calves have the rennet in their stomachs to help digest milk from their mothers. Older cows no longer have use for it and stop producing it.

Animal rennet is one of the most common ingredients in mass produced cheese, which can make it quite a hurdle for those looking to only eat cheese with vegan rennet. The following nationally distributed cheeses, plus many others, contain rennet from cows or other animals with four stomachs:

* Land O’Lakes asiago, provolone, parmesan, Romano and American
* All Pollio cheeses except mozzarella and ricotta
* Tillamook Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese
* All Kraft cheeses except U.S. produced Swiss and Neufchatel
* Sorrento provolone and Parmesan

Cheeses that use animal rennet will usually have rennet or rennin listed on the ingredients label. Rennin is the less common name for the exact same product.

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Cheese Rennet

2009-06-12T22:51:00.000-07:00

Cheese Rennet

Cheese Rennet, is a native plant growing on the 5 of fields and roads. It has a firm, erect, square stem ; short branches, terminating in spikes of small yellow blossoms, appearing in July and August.

The flowers of this plant coagulate boiling milk ; and it is, weapprehend erroneously, supposed that the best Cheshire cheese is prepared by their influence. When boiled in alum-water, says Dr. Withering, they tinge wool yellow. The roots dye a very fine red, not inferior to madder. They also impart a similar colour to the bones of animals fed upon them. Ac-cording to the experiments related by Succow, the German chemist, a deco6tion of the whole plant, when in blossom, on adding vitriol of iron and spirit of salt, produced a fine green colour, which was likewise imparted to wool and silk.

Sheep and goats eat the yellow bed-straw ; but it is refused by horses, swine, and cows. In France, the flowers are prescribed in hys-teric cases. The juice of the plant has been successfully used in Britain ; and, from an account given in the Edinburgh Medical Com-mentraries, it appears to be an efficacious remedy for the cure of scorbutic complaints.
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Production of natural calf rennet

2009-06-12T22:50:00.001-07:00

Production of natural calf rennet

Natural calf rennet is extracted from the inner mucosa of the fourth stomach chamber (the abomasum) of young calves. These stomachs are a by-product of veal production. If rennet is extracted from older calves (grass-fed or grain-fed) the rennet contains less or no chymosin but a high level of pepsin and can only be used for special types of milk and cheeses. As each ruminant produces a special kind of rennet to digest the milk of its own mother, there are milk-specific rennets available, such as kid goat rennet especially for goat's milk and lamb rennet for sheeps milk. Rennet or digestion enzymes from other animals, like swine-pepsin, are not used in cheese production.

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RENNET

2009-06-12T22:47:00.000-07:00

RENNET

Rennet is a natural complex of enzymes produced in any mammalian stomach to digest the mother's milk, and is often used in the production of cheese. Rennet contains many enzymes, including a proteolytic enzyme (protease) that coagulates the milk, causing it to separate into solids (curds) and liquid (whey). The active enzyme in rennet is called chymosin or rennin (EC 3.4.23.4) but there are also other important enzymes in it, e.g., pepsin or lipase. There are non-animal sources for rennet that are suitable for vegetarian consumption.
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